Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 14:20:24 +0100 From: krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dangerously dedicated disks and 8-stable status Message-ID: <o2pd36406631005070620hf317d001sa1fc83dd79c82777@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100505195544.be380d17.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <z2td36406631005050917t1b7ea0bcwfb8ccb2487123846@mail.gmail.com> <20100505195544.be380d17.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 5 May 2010 18:55, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On Wed, 5 May 2010 17:17:09 +0100, krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> wrote: > > I updated a production box at work last night from freebsd 6.2 to > 8-stable, > > via 7-stable. The upgrade went ok just a minor glitch in jumping from 7 > to > > 8. Basically all the device names changed from mfid0s1[a-g] to > mfid0[a-g]. I > > presume this is because the initial layout was in dangerously dedicated > > mode. > > That's strange. "Dangerously" dedicated partitioning omits the > slicing part, so if you had mfid0s1[a-g] in 6 and 7, there was > a slice. Maybe the mfi driver is different in 8 in terms of > representing the disks? > > > > > Two issues here why did the naming scheme seem to indicate a more > > normal MBR disk layout in bsd 6 and 7. > > Very strange - if you can check booting from a live system CD > or DVD with FreeBSD 6 and 7, and the disks are mfid0s1[a-g], > and if you boot into FreeBSD 8, the disks are mfid0[a-g], that's > really strange... > > > > > Second what is the current status of > > dangerously dedicated in 8-stable as i thought support was being dropped. > > The support has been removed from sysinstall. You can't create > dedicated partitions (without slice) with sysinstall, but you > can create them manually (e. g. using bsdlabel and newfs). So > support isn't dropped at all - dedicated disks just is a new > special secret feature. :-) > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > FYI happened on 2nd box as well but I least it didnt catch me out this time 8). It seems that pre freebsd-8 it is permissible to use format <dev>s1[a-h] , however in freebsd-8+ to you are forced to use the format <dev>[a-h]. # ls -ltr backup-2010-05-0[57]*/dev/mfid* crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 90 Jan 12 2008 backup-2010-05-05_01:59--2010-05-05_02:29/dev/mfid0s1g crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 89 Jan 12 2008 backup-2010-05-05_01:59--2010-05-05_02:29/dev/mfid0s1f crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 88 Jan 12 2008 backup-2010-05-05_01:59--2010-05-05_02:29/dev/mfid0s1e crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 87 Jan 12 2008 backup-2010-05-05_01:59--2010-05-05_02:29/dev/mfid0s1d crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 84 Jan 12 2008 backup-2010-05-05_01:59--2010-05-05_02:29/dev/mfid0s1a crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 86 Jan 12 2008 backup-2010-05-05_01:59--2010-05-05_02:29/dev/mfid0s1c crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 85 Jan 12 2008 backup-2010-05-05_01:59--2010-05-05_02:29/dev/mfid0s1b crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 76 Jan 12 2008 backup-2010-05-05_01:59--2010-05-05_02:29/dev/mfid0s1 crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 75 Jan 12 2008 backup-2010-05-05_01:59--2010-05-05_02:29/dev/mfid0 crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 87 May 7 04:38 backup-2010-05-07_13:57--2010-05-07_14:10/dev/mfid0b crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 85 May 7 04:38 backup-2010-05-07_13:57--2010-05-07_14:10/dev/mfid0 crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 91 May 7 05:38 backup-2010-05-07_13:57--2010-05-07_14:10/dev/mfid0g crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 90 May 7 05:38 backup-2010-05-07_13:57--2010-05-07_14:10/dev/mfid0f crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 89 May 7 05:38 backup-2010-05-07_13:57--2010-05-07_14:10/dev/mfid0e crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 88 May 7 05:38 backup-2010-05-07_13:57--2010-05-07_14:10/dev/mfid0d crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 86 May 7 05:38 backup-2010-05-07_13:57--2010-05-07_14:10/dev/mfid0a
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